William Hill pays out on Mendes goal

Bookmaker William Hill has decided to pay out winnings to punters who backed Tottenham Hotspur’s Pedro Mendes to score against Manchester United (MUFC) on 4 January.

In the last minute of the Premiership football game, MUFC’s goalkeeper Roy Carroll fumbled a 45m punt from Mendes into his own net, but none of the game’s officials saw or signalled the “goal” and the game ended 0-0.

William Hill will honour all bets which backed Mendes to score the first goal of the game at 20-1 or at any time in the match at 11-2.